Monthly Archives: May 2016
Exam 4: Cancer Recurrence Following Immune-Suppressive Therapies in Patients With Immune-Mediated Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Acute Right Upper Abdominal Pain With No Trauma History
Question: An 82-year-old woman arrived in our emergency department for acute right upper abdominal pain with no trauma history. She had a medical history of cardiac arrhythmia (atrial fibrillation) with pacemaker insertion and anticoagulant therapy (wa… Continue reading
Acute Right Upper Abdominal Pain With No Trauma History
Question: An 82-year-old woman arrived in our emergency department for acute right upper abdominal pain with no trauma history. She had a medical history of cardiac arrhythmia (atrial fibrillation) with pacemaker insertion and anticoagulant therapy (wa… Continue reading
Treatment of Hypohepatia After Transplantation of Liver From a Living Donor Liver by Transcatheter Embolization, Using a Simulated 3-Dimensional Printing Vascular Model
Question: A 68-year-old man with severe alcoholic liver cirrhosis underwent a left lobe adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation. The volume of the donor’s liver was relatively low for the recipient; therefore, portacaval shunting was perfor… Continue reading
Treatment of Hypohepatia After Transplantation of Liver From a Living Donor Liver by Transcatheter Embolization, Using a Simulated 3-Dimensional Printing Vascular Model
Question: A 68-year-old man with severe alcoholic liver cirrhosis underwent a left lobe adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation. The volume of the donor’s liver was relatively low for the recipient; therefore, portacaval shunting was perfor… Continue reading
Exam 3: The Toronto Consensus for the Treatment of Helicobacter pylori Infection in Adults
Multiple Giant Mushroom-like Tumors Inside the Stomach
Question: A 63-year-old woman presented with abdominal fullness and dizziness for 1 month. She had a history of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), M2, and received chemotherapy followed by allogeneic matched unrelated donor peripheral blood hematopoietic st… Continue reading
Multiple Giant Mushroom-like Tumors Inside the Stomach
Question: A 63-year-old woman presented with abdominal fullness and dizziness for 1 month. She had a history of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), M2, and received chemotherapy followed by allogeneic matched unrelated donor peripheral blood hematopoietic st… Continue reading
Multiple White Plaques in the Body of the Stomach in a Patient Undergoing Hemodialysis
Question: A 65-year-old man with a history of rectal cancer had received hemodialysis for 7 years in treatment for diabetic nephritis. Chest radiographs showed an aggregation of high-intensity granular shadows in the left upper quadrant (Figure A, circ… Continue reading
Multiple White Plaques in the Body of the Stomach in a Patient Undergoing Hemodialysis
Question: A 65-year-old man with a history of rectal cancer had received hemodialysis for 7 years in treatment for diabetic nephritis. Chest radiographs showed an aggregation of high-intensity granular shadows in the left upper quadrant (Figure A, circ… Continue reading